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Dalethorpe The, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu

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5.04	Overall rating

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The Destination	5.33
The Location	4.67
The Appearance	5.33
The Mountains	6.00
Bookings & front office	5.33
The Service	5.67
The Room	5.33
Food & Drink	4.33
Activities	3.33

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Sightseeing: Kodaikanal has a whole lot of scenic view points, a huge star shaped lake, few parks, few waterfalls, forest area. The kind of places you would want to go depends on the age group as well as the kind of activities you would want to do.Lazy morning walks, and spending time around the lake in the evenings are heavenly.So don’t spend the whole day visiting places. Green Valley View, Pillar Rock, Guna Caves, Pine Forest, Shanti Valley View, Upper Lake View, 500 year old tree are on the same route and can be covered in a day in around 4 to 5 hours.One day you could visit nearby picnic spots like Berijam Lake or mannavanur.Bryant park, Chettiar Park,Lake(boating), Bear Shola Falls, Kurinji Andavar Temple, churches, can be clubbed in a day.Dolphins Nose/Echo Point, Lion Cave/Pambhar Falls are places that would need a good deal of trekking.So do consider the age/health of everyone when planning to visit these.Also make sure you are wearing the right kind of apparel and footwear.And plan these treks on the first or second day of your stay as it can be really tiring.The hotel or resort folks can help with information based on the type of activity you are interested in.The local taxi drivers can take you for a ride by offering packages with a whole lot of names on them.These might be places easily accessible by walk or those that are literally next to each other.So make sure you do enough research before deciding upon the cabs. Food: Now that can be a bit problematic or rather repetitive.The food offered at resorts or hotels are usully not very satisfactory taste wise.Astoria, Meenakshi Bhawan and Hill Top are few popular restaurants for veggies like me and these provide pretty good food at budget rates.There are a couple of star rated hotels like Carlton or Kodai International for those particular about class.There are also a couple of dhabhas like Rasoi, Tava. Some of these close pretty early though. In all tourist spots and along the lake you get hot yummy corn, steamed ground nut salad, mangoes and best of all steaming cups of masala tea that can really pep up your senses. Shopping: Home Made Chocolates, spices and oils.These are available in almost every other shop but the taxi drivers or hotel guys can help deciding where to buy good quality stuff. These chocolates are really delicious and so put off all your calorie considerations and do relish their taste while on this trip.Some nice varieties of fruits like lychees, star fruits, plums are also available
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4.44
roy, Bangalore | 30^th June 2008
Hotel Review of Dalethorpe The
Comments: This is more of a home stay .the place is clean as are the toilets with warm running water 24 hours a day which may be a luxury in most of the other big hotels which burn logs of wood only during morning for water heating. Beware in most other commercial hotels all throughout the day u will have only cold water.The food which is made to order is tasty, hygienic and can be made as per your taste. Its is reasonably priced too. Room service is good and cleaning is done everyday by a holy soul Marie. The Towels are snow white and the bed is quite comfortable. There is a cable TV too.
Best Experience: We rented Shahids activa scooter for the local places .It gave us ample opportunity to explore many places around kodaikanal without the hurry of the conducted tours.Best part was scootering through the clouds at 0 visibility. we could spend more time at places which we liked and stop beside some small rivulets,peach trees to pluck one, or at a road side dhaba for a hot cuppa. The next day Shahid arranged a trip in his own car with his friend as our guide & driver. He took us to some not so frequented waterfalls, an old church with a large bell, and some breathtaking views of valleys & terrace farming. On the way we were lucky we could see a wild bison.
Going around the lake in a bicycle is a good experience. Rest all others like Brants park are same as ooty Taxi from any where to anywhere is 50-100 bucks
Worst Experience: None specifically. Although there was an initial confusion about the 12-o-clock check out time between travelguru & hotel it was resolved amicably

6.44
Kasturi, Kolkata | 21^st May 2007
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all in all a very satisfying holiday at kodai......

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4.22
Senthil, Chennai | 27^th October 2006
Hotel Review of Dalethorpe The
Kodai as a destination is a great place. Dalethorpe as a place to stay is good but we could not experiance food as the kitchen was closed. As the activity goes, there is nothing internal but on request they would arrange for sight seeing. The sight seeing activity was amazing and we enjoyed evey moment of it. The driver come the guide was too good in making the trip more interesting...

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